IDENTIFIERS

  • Current Taxon Name (Soil Name): Biscay
  • OSD
  • Series Extent
  • User Site ID: S1970MN0471122
  • User Pedon ID: S1970MN0471122
  • Lab Information:
  • Certified Lab Pedon Description - no
  • Lab Source ID - UMNSSL1
  • Lab Pedon # - UMN1122
  • NCSS Pedon Lab Data NASIS Record ID - 49031
  • Print Date: 11/11/2024

    • LOCATION

  • Location In Web Soil Survey
  • AOI is roughly a square mile and pedon is marked in the center.
  • Location in SoilWeb
  • Location in Google Maps
  • Std. Latitude: 43.5420380
  • Std. Longitude: -93.5473099
  • Datum: WGS84
  • Township: 101N
  • Range: 23W
  • Section: 24
  • PLSS Details: NW10NW40NW160
  • Country: US—United States
  • State: Minnesota
  • County: MN047—Freeborn
  • MLRA: 103—Central Iowa and Minnesota Till Prairies
  • Regional Office: NC—North Central
  • MLRA Soil Survey Area: NC-ALB—Albert Lea, Minnesota
  • Non-MLRA Soil Survey Area: MN047—Freeborn County, Minnesota
  • 7.5 Minute USGS Quad: 43093-E5—Conger, Minnesota

    • PEDON

  • Describers Name: Orville Whitaker
  • Current Taxonomic Class: Fine-loamy over sandy or sandy-skeletal, mixed, superactive, mesic Typic Endoaquolls
  • Current Taxon Kind: series
  • Pedon Type: not classified to current taxon name
  • Pedon Purpose: laboratory sampling site
  • Pedon Record Orgin: PedonPC
  • Correlated Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscay
  • Classificaton Date - 2/13/2012
  • Sampled As Information:
  • Soil Name - Biscay
  • Taxon Kind - series
  • Classificaton Date - 11/8/2010
  • Dynamic Soil Properties:
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Hydric: no
  • Certification Status: certified
  • QC Status: level 1
  • QA Status: not reviewed


    • SITE

  • Parent Material: fine-loamy alluvium over sandy and gravelly outwash
  • Drainage Class: poorly
  • Surface Fragments:
  • Benchmark Soil?: no

    • VEGETATION

    SITE OBSERVATION

  • Observation Date: 11/8/2010 (actual site observation date)
  • Surface Cover Properties:
  • Site Obs. Cover Kind 2 - hayland
  • Pedoderm Loose Cover Indicator - no
  • Drained? - no
  • Bedded Soil? - no
  • Forest Plantation? - no
    • Setting and Climate
    Slope Slope Length USLE Upslope Length Elev. Corr. Elev Aspect MAP REAP FFD MAAT MSAT MWAT MAST MSST MWST MFFP PE Index Climate Station ID Climate Station Name Climate Station Type
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    Ap—0 to 28 centimeters (0.0 to 11.0 inches); black (N 2.5/),, very dark gray (N 3/),, dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular, and weak medium granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear smooth boundary. Lab sample # MN112201
    A1—28 to 46 centimeters (11.0 to 18.1 inches); black (N 2.5/),, very dark gray (10YR 3/1), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.0; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112202
    A2—46 to 56 centimeters (18.1 to 22.0 inches); black (10YR 2/1), dark grayish brown (10YR 4/2), dry; loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak fine granular structure; friable; fragments; neutral, pH 7.2; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112203
    Bg1—56 to 71 centimeters (22.0 to 28.0 inches); dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky structure; friable; 3 percent fine faint brown (10YR 4/3), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix and 3 percent medium faint grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix; fragments; neutral, pH 7.3; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112204
    Bg2—71 to 91 centimeters (28.0 to 35.8 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) loam; weak fine subangular blocky, and weak medium subangular blocky structure; friable; 1 percent fine prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 2 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; neutral, pH 7.1; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112205
    2BCg—91 to 107 centimeters (35.8 to 42.1 inches); grayish brown (2.5Y 5/2) loamy sand; single grain; loose; 3 percent fine distinct olive brown (2.5Y 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 3 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-10 millimeter mixed fragments; slightly alkaline, pH 7.4; clear wavy boundary. Lab sample # MN112207
    2Cg—107 to 122 centimeters (42.1 to 48.0 inches); olive gray (5Y 5/2) sand; single grain; loose; 1 percent medium faint dark grayish brown (2.5Y 4/2), moist, iron depletions in matrix and 1 percent medium prominent dark yellowish brown (10YR 4/4), moist, masses of oxidized iron in matrix; 11 percent by volume subrounded 2-?-15 millimeter mixed fragments; very slight effervescence. Lab sample # MN112208